Bruce Neswick

Biography

Bruce Neswick is Organist and Choirmaster of St. Philip's Cathedral in Atlanta. He came to the Georgia capital from a position as Assistant Organist-Choirmaster and Director of the Cathedral Girls' Choir at Washington National Cathedral, in addition to being the Director of Music at St. Albans School for boys and the National Cathedral School for Girls.These appointments followed tenures as Organist and Choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, Kentucky, Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Geneva, Switzerland and St. Paul's Cathedral in Buffalo, New York. He is very active in the field of church music.

Concert organist Bruce Neswick is one of America's major talents in the field of organ performance and is especially noted for his superb ability as an improvisateur, a craft which only a few organists in the United States have made their specialty. His playing is widely recognized for its incisiveness, vitality and expressiveness.

He has composed for several performers and churches throughout the United States, and his organ and choral music is published by Paraclete, Augsburg-Fortress, Selah, Vivace, Plymouth and St. James' presses. A great deal of his service music, hymns and hymn-arrangements appear in hymnals found in churches of many denominations.

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